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CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak wants to resign but worries that Egypt will sink into chaos if he does, the leader told US broadcaster ABC. "If I resign today there will be chaos," Mubarak was quoted as saying in the interview, which appeared on the ABC website. The ongoing unrest in his country has upset the president, who has ruled for nearly 30 years. "I was very unhappy about yesterday. I do not want to see Egyptians fighting each other," he said, referring to clashes between his supporters and anti-government protesters.

CAIRO: Abdel Fattah al-Sisi , the retired Field Marshall who toppled Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last year, was today heading for a landslide victory, bagging 96.2 per cent of total vote with most of the ballots counted. The 59-year-old former army chief won 96.2 per cent of about 21 million votes cast, state TV reported early today, with the ballots from 312 of 352 counting stations tallied. His only rival, leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi, gained 3.8 per cent while 4.2 per cent of votes were declared void.

NEW DELHI: Noting that historic Tahrir Square protests had evoked feelings of "admiration and respect" among Indians, President Pranab Mukherjee has said youths hold the key to progress of India and Egypt which must explore news ways of engagement towards nation building. "It has been now more than two years since the historic events at Tahrir Square. We, in India, watched with admiration and respect as the young crowds in Cairo chanted Selmiyya Selmiyya (peacefully, peacefully)

The dominant picture of an emerging Egypt is green. The fear that Middle East's politically most vocal and significant country will be governed by mullahs is clouding most commentary on the transition. True, developments in Egypt over the past weeks have been muddled and at first sight the disarray is overwhelming. But that doesn't necessarily translate to the emergence of an Islamist nation. To understand the struggle between the newly elected lawmakers and the once all-powerful military establishment, it is important to appreciate what Egypt was before Tahrir Square protests and Hosni Mubarak's downfall.

NEW YORK: The end of Hosni Mubarak's rule in Egypt on Friday should bring opportunities for investors as freer markets and increased commerce gradually take root in a country with 80 million people hungry to become part of the global economy. Mubarak relinquished power to the military 18 days after an uprising led by a technologically savvy young population demanding jobs, freedoms and transparency. Despite the political uncertainty of what lies ahead in the short-term, investors see the Egyptian "White Revolution," as many citizens are calling it, an opportunity to grab market-share in the region's most populous country.

CAIRO: Defying military orders to "go home", tens of thousands of protesters today laid a siege to Cairo's central square clamouring for immediate ouster of embattled President Hosni Mubarak , who ignored mounting global pressure to step down saying it will plunge Egypt into "chaos". Amid reports that the US is trying to broker a deal for a transitional government in Egypt headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman, massive crowds thronged the Tahrir Square, the hub of unrelenting 11-day protests that have claimed over 300 lives, for a "day of departure" rally against Mubarak, chanting slogans, bowing in prayer and waving national flags.

His first venture brought revolution to the streets of Cairo and deliverance from Hosni Mubarak for fellow Egyptians. Two years after that heady spring in Tahrir Square , Waleed Rashed is making delivery, not deliverance, his business. The 29-year-old former banker, who joined a group of 50 revolutionaries to launch the iconic Arab Spring movement , has set up a courier company that promises to get things done as easily as possible on the traffic-choked streets of Cairo.

CAIRO: More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo on Tuesday, filling the city's main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. Protesters streamed into Tahrir, or Liberation, Square, among them people defying a government transportation shutdown to make their way from rural provinces in the Nile Delta. The peaceful crowd was jammed in shoulder to shoulder: schoolteachers, farmers, unemployed university graduates, women in conservative headscarves and women in high heels, men in suits and working-class men in scuffed shoes.

NEW DELHI: FMCG major Marico Industries said the recent political turmoil in Egypt has affected production at its two plants in the North African country by up to 70 per cent and will impact revenue for at least one quarter. The company also cautioned that if the unrest that is spreading to other countries in the region reaches Saudi Arabia, it could spell bigger problem for the FMCG firm. "We have two factories in Egypt and you know the situation in Egypt is still not absolutely back to normal.

CAIRO: Switzerland has frozen whatever assets Hosni Mubarak and his associates may have there, and anti-corruption campaigners are demanding the same of other countries. But experts say hunting for the deposed Egyptian leader's purported hidden wealth, let alone recovering it, will be an enormous task. Mubarak's actual worth remains a mystery. A recent claim that he and his sons Gamal and Alaa may have amassed a fortune of up to $70 billion, greater than that of Microsoft's Bill Gates, helped drive the protests that eventually brought him down.